Tropical Storm Hilary latest as magnitude 5.0 earthquake hits and California braces for ‘life-threatening’ floods.
The National Weather Service in the US, says that the tropical storm - which at one point was a hurricane - could potentially bring with it “historic” rainfall amounts that could trigger more floods, landslides and debris flows. Hilary weakened as it made landfall in Mexico on Sunday, but it is the first tropical storm California has experienced in 84 years.
About 30,000 households have been ordered to evacuate in Canada's British Columbia province, where nearly 400 wildfires are raging.
It comes as officials say that the wildfire on the Spanish island of Tenerife was ‘started deliberately’.
India's space agency has released images of the far side of the Moon, as its third lunar mission attempts to locate a safe landing spot on the little-explored south pole. The pictures have been taken by Vikram, Chandrayaan-3's lander, which began the last phase of its mission on Thursday - and is due to land on 23rd August.
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